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Knock down cultural walls to build a foundation for successful social group work!

Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work examines how changing technological, economic, and social conditions require social workers to create alliances to better serve their clients. The book addresses how the basic principles and techniques of group work can transcend geographical and cultural boundaries when dealing with issues such as HIV/AIDS, parenting, adoption, and sex offenses. A distinguished panel of practitioners, researchers, and educators details the strategies used to establish cultural and linguistic border crossings that help reduce the limits social workers face.

Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work addresses the multicultural dimension of social work and the benefits of a junction between research and intervention, including how the convergence with other fields of knowledge (music, drama, the arts, etc.) can contribute to a more effective intervention methodology. The book examines partnerships between research teams and agencies, field placements, collaborations between schools and practice settings, building a learning community, service education, the arrival of new technologies (teleconferencing, the Internet), reasserting group work fundamentals, and how mixing and matching methodologies can produce a more effective intervention strategy.

Topics examined in Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work include:

working with AIDS patients in early recovery from substance abuse

integrating group work with mutual aid to treat male sex offenders

using teleconferencing groups with families involved in organ donation

conducting group interventions with mentally ill parents

working with families dealing with failed adoptions

developing a mediating group for birth parent self-assessment

and much more!

Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work is an essential tool for dealing with cross-cultural conflicts. It's equally valuable as a professional guide for clinicians and therapists, policy developers, supervisors, and administrators, and as a textbook or supplemental text in courses dealing with clinical, international, and intercultural group work, advanced group work, support groups, and mental health services.

Contents

About the Editors

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Beyond Our Frontiers: The Development of Alliances Through Group Work (Jocelyn Lindsay, Daniel Turcotte, and Estelle Hopmeyer)

Chapter 1. Towards an International Development of Group Work: Establishing Cultural and Linguistic Border Crossings

Introduction

Internationalizing Group Work

Arriving at the Group Work Frontier

The Cross-National Encounter

From the Inter to the Trans-Cultural

Chapter 2. Crossing Boundaries: Group Work with Persons with AIDS in Early Recovery from Substance Abuse

Literature Review

The Work

The Authority Theme

The Intimacy Theme: Helping Yourself by Helping Others

Conclusion

Chapter 3. Where Has Real Group Work Gone? Reasserting the Fundamentals

What Has Happened to Group Work?

How Should We Respond?

Chapter 4. Group Field Consulting: Building a Learning Community

Introduction

Development of Supervision and Field Instruction in Social Work

The Group Field-Consulting Model

Conclusions

Appendix: Field-Consulting Methodology and Outcomes

Chapter 5. Night of the Tortured Souls: Integration of Group Therapy and Mutual Aid for Treated Male Sex Offenders

Integrating Continued Therapy with Supervised Mutual Aid

A Philosophy of Treating and Supporting the Treated

Group Practice in Integrating Therapy and Mutual Aid with Treated Sex Offenders

Conclusion

Chapter 6. Pushing the Boundary and Coming Full Circle: A Contemporary Role for Social Group Work in Service Education

Literature Review

The Field Placement

Effects of the Group Work Intervention

Future Directions

Appendix: Levels of Transcendence Identified in Group Interaction

Chapter 7. The Use of Teleconferencing Focus Groups with Families Involved in Organ Donation: Dealing with Sensitive Topics

Why Teleconferencing Focus Groups

Dealing with Sensitive Topics

Reactivity in the Screener Questionnaire

Motivation of the Participants

Moderators’ Self-Disclosure and Credibility

Group Members’ Self-Disclosure

Normalisation of Emotions

Legitimization of Participant’s Comments

Building on Preparation and Beginning the Focus Group

Conclusion

Chapter 8. Using Groups for Research and Action: The Asian Mothers’ Support Project

The North Campus Outreach Project

A Program and A Process for Change

Programming

Survey and Program Data

Results

Synergy Through Groups

Summary

Chapter 9. Families for Reunification: A Mediating Group Model for Birth Parent Self-Assessment

Partners in Plan

Program Development

Program Design

Analysis

Conclusion

Appendix: Families for ReunificationPartners in the Plan, Final Assessment

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